Wire-fence machine.



No. 738,356. PATENTED SEPT. 8', 1903. W. S. PUGSLEY.

WIRE FENGE MACHINE.

APPLIGATIOH FILED DEC. 24, 1902.

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N0 MODEL.

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UNITED STATES Patented September 8, 190 3.

PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM S. PUGSLEY, OF LONDON, CANADA.

WIRE-FENCE MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of LettersPatent No. 738,356, dated September 8,1903.

Application filed December 24., 1902. Serial No. 136,510. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM S. PUGSLEY, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and a resident of the city of London, in the county of Middlesex, in the Province of Ontario, Oandurable, and efficient machine that will'weave two Vertical stay-wires with the longitudinal fence-wires at one operation and at the same time a machine that will be easy to operate.

Reference is had to the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a side view of a wire-fence machine embodying my invention. In this view the spacing-bar and hook secured thereto are shown in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is an end view of Fig. 1. In this view the beveled gear-wheel is partly cut away. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the weaving apparatus. In this view the main beveled gear-wheelie partly cut away. Fig. 4. is a detail front view of the rotatingframe and attachments. Fig. 5 is an end View looking at the pinion end of Fig. 4.. Fig. 6 is a view of the end opposite to the pinion end of Fig. 4. Fig. 7 is a detail side and frontview of one of the brackets which support the hubs of the rotating frame. Fig. 8 is a detail end view of one of the spacing-clips and connections. Fig. 9 is a side view of the clip shown in Fig. 8. Fig. 10 is a detail plan and end view of one of the slides and attachment on which the machine is pivoted.

In the accompanying drawings the numeral 1 designates the main frame provided with a spindle 2, secured to the rear side, with an inclined flange 1 and locking-notch 3 on the upper side, and with arms 5 and bolt-holes 7 at the two opposite ends.

8 designates a beveled gear-wheel held in place supported by and turning perfectly free on the spindle 2, and said gear-wheel is provided with a square crank-pin 9.

l0 designates a crank which engages with the crank-pin 9, and said crank is provided with a handle 11 and flanges 12.

13 designates a spring-dog which is pivotally mounted on the crank 10. The inner end of which dog 13, when in it its normal position, is adapted to engage with the locking-notch 3.

14: designates brackets secured to and near the opposite ends of the frame 1, as shown in Fig. 1, in which brackets the circular bearing-sockets 15 (shown particularly in Fig. 7) are' formed, and 16 is an opening, one of which is formed in 'one side of each of said brackets, which opening extends inward from one edge to and communicates with the circular bearing-socket 15.

17 designatesabeveled gear-pinion adapted to engage with the beveled gear-wheel S, and 18 designates a head, and said head and said pinion are connected together by the bars 20 and are each formed with a hub 19, (shown particularly in Fig. 4,) and said hubs are fitted to, supported by, and rotate perfectly free in the circular bearing sockets 15 in the brackets 14. 21 designates a slot,one of which is formed in said pinion 17 and head 18 and in the hubs 19, adjacent thereto, said slot extending from one edge inward to a point beyond the center, and at their inner ends said slots 21 are formed with recesses 24., which extend laterally in opposite directions from said slot. 22 designates a pair of flanges formed on the outer ends of each of said hubs 19, one on each side of the slot 21.

23 designates pins, one of which is secured in the flanges 22 at the outer end of each hub.

25 designates wire loops or spools, one of which is secured to the adjacent side of said pinion l7 and head 18, on which loop 25 the coil of wire 26 is placed from which the vertical stay-wires are formed.

29 is a clasp secured to the frame 1, which extends over on the back of the beveled gearwheel 8 at the point where the beveled pinion 17 engages therewith to prevent said pinion and wheel from spreading apart and the teeth of one from slipping over or riding on the teeth of the other.

30 and 31 designate spacing-standards connected together by the cross-bars 28, and each of said spacing-standards is provided on one side with the lateral flanges 32, and 32 repre- XCO sents lateral flanges formed on the opposite side of the spacing-standard 31 to that on which the flanges 32 are formed, as shown in Fig. 8.

33 designates a spacing-bar provided on one side with the laterally-projecting flanges 33, which spacing-bar is pivotally secured to the brackets 34, and the latter are secured to the spacing-standard 30.

35 designates a hook pivotally secured to the spacing-bar 33, and said hook is provided with a notch 36, which engages with the adjacent horizontal fence-Wire 37 to hold the spacing-standard 30 against the horizontal fence-wires 37.

39 designate spring-clips provided with the flanges 40 and the latter with the inturned shoulders 40*, which shoulders engage with the flanges 32 of the spacing-standard 31 or with the flanges 33 of the spacing-bar 33, as shown in Fig. 8.

41 designates a notched and tapered gibkey which extends through a lateral opening 42 in the spacing-clips 39, between said spacing-standard and said spacing-clip, to firmly hold the latter at the position to which it is adjusted on said spacing-standards.

43 designates slides provided with the flanges 44 and the latter with the inturned shoulders 45, which shoulders engage with the flanges 32 of the spacing-standards 30 and 31, as shown in Fig. 10, and each of said spacing-standards 30 and 31 is provided with one of said slides. 46 designates pivot-bolts, one of which is held in place and supported by each of said slides 43, which bolts are fitted to the holes 7 in the opposite ends of the frame 1, on which bolts said frame 1 is pivotally supported.

The operation is as follows: Two coils of wire 26 are placed on the loops or spools 25, as shown in Fig. 1. In this view short coils of wire only are shown; but said coils of wire may be of different diameter and one telescope within the other, and when so constructed each coil could extend the full length of the rotating frame. After the coils of wire 26 are placed on the loops or spools 25 one of the ends of the wire of one wire coil is threaded through the slot 21 between the pin 23 and the adjacent portion of the pinion 17 and hub 19, as shown in Fig. 5, and the end of the wire of the other wire coil is threaded through the slot 21 between the pin 23 and adjacent portion of the head 18 and hub 19, as shown in Fig. 6. Theseends of the wire of the wire coils 26 are then bent around, and thus held in engagement with the arms 5 of the frame 1. The weaving apparatus is then adjusted on the spacing-standards until the arms 5 rest on the upper horizontal fencewire 37. The weaving apparatus is then further adjusted toward said wire 37 until the latter abuts against the pins 23, and in order to permit this adjustment the slots 21 in the head and pinion must register with the openings 16 in the brackets 14, which they do when the dog 13 engages with the lockingnotch 3. The crank 10 is then grasped and the spring-dog 13 compressed to release it from the locking-notch 3, when the crank 10 and beveled gear-wheel 8 is rotated once, and just as the dog 13-clears the notch 3 the compression is removed from said dog, so that when said dog comes opposite the notch 3 again it is automatically adjusted into said notch, which prevents the further rotation of the weaving apparatus until compression is again applied to said dog to release it from said locking-notch 3. While the beveled gearwheel 8 has been turning once, the beveled gear-pinion 17 and rotating frame, of which it is a part, has been rotated three times, and the ends of the wire of the wire coils 26 being held between the pins 23 and adjacent portion of the pinion l7 and head 18, as before described, these ends of the wire of said wire coils are each twisted three times around the horizontal fence wire 37, and as the ends of the wire of said wire coils '26, in engagement with the arms 5, are securely held in contact with said arms the wire to form these coils, which are twisted around the horizontal fence wire 37, is drawn from the wire coils 26 on the loop or spool 25. The weaving apparatus is then adjusted back from the spacing-bars and horizontal fencewires to the position shown in Fig. 2, and as these ends of the wire of said wire-coils are now secured to one of the horizontal fencewires as the weaving apparatus is adjusted to the position shown in Fig. 2 sufficient wire from both coils is drawn from them to form the portion of the vertical stay-wire between two horizontal fence-wires and to permit the arms of the weaving apparatus to lower, so that they will engage with the next horizontal fencewire, as before described, when the operation before described is repeated, and as the arms 5 are adjusted to the position shown in Fig. 2 they slip out of the portion of the wire bent around them, and thus permit the weaving apparatus to lower perfectly free to the next horizontal -fence-wire. To support the frame 1, carrying the weaving mechanism on the spacing-standards 30 and 31, the bolt 46 is projected through the bolthole 7 in the frame 1, as before described, and the inturned shoulders 45 of said slides 43 are engaged with the flanges 32 of said standards at one end, as shown in Fig. 10, after which, by grasping the crank 10, said frame, slides, and weaving apparatus maybe adjusted upward or downward to any point desired on said standards.

The spacing-clips 39 are engaged with the flanges 32 of the spacing-standard 31, as shown in Fig. 8, and with the flanges 33 of the spacing-bar 33 in the same manner, and after said spacing-clips have been adjusted to the desired position, which is governed by the distance apart the horizontal fence-wires 37 are required to be, they are firmly locked and held in said position by driving in the tapered gib-keys all. The spacing-standard 31 is first secured to the horizontal fence-wires 37 by removing the pins 39 from the spacing-clips 39 and then placing said spacingstandard 31 adjacent to the fence-wires and a horizontal fence-wire in each spacing-clip, after which, by inserting the pins 39 in said clips, said fence-wires 37 are firmly held insaid clips. The spacing-clips 39 on the pivot-bar 33 have no pins 39". these clips, because when the spacing-bar 33 is adjusted to the position shown by solid line in Fig. 2 the adjacent side of the spacingstandard 30 prevents said horizontal fencewires from accidentally disengaging from said clips. When so placed, said horizontal fence-wires 37 are held spaced apart while the stay-wires are being Woven around them, and after the horizontal fence-wires have been placed in the clips 39 the hook 35 is engaged with the adjacent horizontal fence-wire to prevent the spacing-standard 30 from moving away from the adjacent fence-wires. In addition to this the horizontal fence-wires extend between the spacing-standard 30 and spacing-bar 33.

After the machine has woven the two vertical stay-Wires with the lowest horizontal wire of the fence the stay-wires are out at some convenient point between the lowest fence-wire and the wire coil 26, after which the spacing-standards and weaving apparatus pivoted thereon are moved longitudinally to the point where it is required to weave addi tional stay-wires with the horizontal fencewires.

In using this invention all that the operator has to do after weaving the vertical staywire around the'top horizontal fence-wire is to adjust the frame and attachments to the position shown in Fig. 2 to disengage the arms 5 from the preceding horizontal fencewire and to draw sufficient wire from the coil 26 to extend from one horizontal fence-wire to the other, then to adjust the machine until the arms 5 rest on the horizontal fencewire, and then insert the latter in the openings 16 and slots 21, as herein described, make one revolution of the gear-wheel 8, and so on. As a result, a simple, strong, durable, inexpensive, and efficient wire-fence machine is provided, and one that will readily-and easily weave two Vertical stay-wires with the horizontal fence-wire at one operation.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. In a machine of the class described, a frame, provided with a spindle and an inclined flange, a locking-notch formed in said frame, a beveled gear-wheel rotatably mounted on said spindle, a crank for operating said beveled gear-wheel, and a spring-dog pivotally mounted on said crank and adapted to engage with said inclined flange and said l0cking-notch in said frame, in combination with a wire-carrying rotatable frame provided with a beveled gear-pinion, adapted to engage with These pins are not necessary in said beveled gear-wheel, and means for supporting said rotatable frame, substantiallyas and for the purpose set forth.

'2. In a machine of the class described, a wire-carrying rotatable frame, provided with hubs, slots formed in the opposite ends of said frame and said hubs, flanges on the ends of said hubs,and a pin secured in saidflanges and extending across said slots, in combination with brackets,circular bearing-sockets formed in said brackets, in which said hubs are supported, an opening formed in one side of each of said brackets which communicates with the slots in the ends of said rotatable frame, and means for supporting said brackets, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. In a machine of the class described, a frame provided with outwardly-projecting arms, brackets supported by said frame, a circular bearing-socket formed in each of said brackets and an opening formed in one side of each of said brackets which communicates with the circular bearing-socket therein, in connection with a rotating frame consisting of heads connected together by said connecting-bars, hubs on theouter ends of said heads, slots in the ends of said frame and said hubs, flanges on the ends of said hubs, pins secured in said flanges, and wiresup porting loops or spools secured to the adjacent sides of the heads of said rotatable frame, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

4.. In a machine of the class described, a spacing-clip,flanges on said clip,andinturned shoulders on said flanges, a pin secured in said clip, and a notched and tapered gib key, in combination with a spacing-standard, provided with laterally projecting flanges with which the inturned shoulders on said clip engage, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

5. In a machine of the class described, a spacing'clip, flanges on said clip, inturned shoulders on said flanges, and a notched and tapered gib-key, in combination with aspacing-bar-provided with laterally-projecting flanges with which the inturned shoulders on the clip engage, and a spacing-standard, to which said spacing-bar is pivotally secured, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

6. In a machine of the class described, slides, flanges on said slides, inturned shoulders on said flanges, and a frame carrying a Wire-weaving apparatus pivotally secured to said slides,in combination with spacing-standards provided with laterally projecting flanges, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

7. In a machine of the class described, a frame provided with outwardly-projecting arms, brackets supported by said frame and having circular bearing-sockets formed therein, a rotating frame provided with hubs, which are fitted to and inserted in said circular bearing-sockets in said brackets, slots in the ends of said frame and said hubs,

flanges on the ends of said hubs, pins supother spacing-standard and said spacing-bar, 1o ported in said flanges, and loops or spools substantially as and for the purpose set forth. secured to the adjacent faces of the heads of In testimony whereof I have signed in the I said rotating frame for supporting coils of presence of the two undersigned witnesses.

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slides adjustable thereon, to which slides the 'WILLIAM PUGSLEY' main frame is pivotally secured, a spacing- Witnesses: bar pivotally secured to one of said spacing- P. J. EDMUNDS, standards, and spacing-clips secured to the A. BYRIOK. 

